Chu-Ske The Mouse Fighter

My nephew gave me the trading card on top because he knew I liked Bruce Lee.

The trading card is Chu-Ske, the Mouse Fighter. According to the card, Chu-Ske is "A fiery mouse, travelling the world to become the strongest fighter in the world of mice. Be careful not to touch him, or you will get burned."

This card is from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game by Konami. The kids like playing and trading with these cards. When I was younger, we had baseball cards. But I also had James Bond cards (still have some from the movie Thunderball) and Batman cards (my brother has these) and also Star Trek cards! We'd buy these card packs at the local store and trade them with our friends.

As we would go through our cards, we'd say things like, "Got 'em, got 'em, need 'em, got 'em..."

Anyone collecting baseball cards will always remember the lousy stick of gum that came with the cards. A couple of chews of the gum and that thing would turn rock hard and all the flavor would be gone. (Wasn't that good to begin with!) Yuck! Still, we bought the cards, chewed the gum and then stuck the cards in the spokes of our bicycles by holding them there with clothes pins attached to the front and rear forks of our bikes. That was how we got the cool "motorcycle" sounds when we rode our bikes.

Man, those were the days!